On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:07pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote

> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:02 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote
> > 
> > > I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how
> > > that behaves.
> > 
> > Why so stingy?  I'm assuming you have at least a 100Mbps connection?  Why 
> > let amanda use only 3% of that (0.3% if you're using gigabit)?
> 
> Oh, was I stingy? If we are talking bus speed it's 400 Mbps, but if it
> is wise to let amanda have it all then why on earth have this parameter
> at all? And how is it precisely that amanda uses this value? Will the
> backup go faster the higher the netuse value? Or how is it?

We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet.  And the parameter is 
there in case your backup server and/or clients perform other network 
intensive functions that you don't want to interfere with.  Myself, I 
consider backups most important and want amanda to use all the bandwidth 
it can.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University